Tonight the environmental documentary film The 11th Hour starring Leonardo DiCaprio (I'll resist comparing our planet to the Titanic) premieres in Hollywood--and two Shifting Baselines co-founders, Randy Olson and Jeremy Jackson, are turning out for the event. The film, which explores our environmental crisis, how it might affect humanity, and some innovative solutions, opens across America this Friday.
Jeremy Jackson, a marine ecologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in southern California, is actually in the film and late tonight I'll speak with him to find out what he thought of The 11th Hour and its Hollywood premiere.
Stop in tomorrow for some ocean-related Q & A about the film with Jeremy Jackson, marine ecologist and an 11th Hour star...
Happy Veterans Day to all those who've served in uniform. And may we hope that one day the guns will fall silent again, as they did on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 90 years ago.
The disturbance off the west coast of Africa that I mentioned earlier is now officially Tropical Depression Number Nine.
It is forecast that Nine will turn into a hurricane in about 72 hours, though one model suggest much sooner.
The Lion of Pireus is a large 4th century BC marble statue that was moved from Pireus, the port of Athens, to Venice in 1688. It is now at the city's Arsenal. The Lion has unmistakeable Swedish 11th century runic inscriptions which have been known to Scandinavian scholars since 1798/99.
We are two days away from the peak day for hurricane season (with many more days of hurricane season coming, of course). Yet there have been no Atlantic Hurricanes.
